Пробний тест НМТ з англійської мови
Як виконувати. У цьому варіанті 32 питання в шести блоках. У блоках 1, 3 і 4 добери до кожного питання букву зі спільного списку (A–H) — кілька букв зайві; у блоках 2, 5 і 6 обери одну відповідь із чотирьох (A–D). Рекомендований час — 60 хвилин. Ключ і пояснення — у другому документі.
Read the texts below. Match choices (A–H) to (1–5). There are three choices you do not need to use.
1 WEEKEND STAFF WANTED. Riverside Café needs friendly students to serve customers on Saturdays and Sundays from June to August. No experience necessary — we will show you everything on your first day. Good hourly pay plus a free lunch. Drop in and ask for Marta.
2 Is your room full of clothes, books and games you never use? Book a stall at the Green Lane Sunday Market on the first Sunday in July and turn them into cash. A stall costs just £5, and you keep everything you make. Please arrive by 7 a.m. to set up.
3 Planning a camping weekend but don’t want to buy a tent you will only use once? Peak Outdoor hires out tents, sleeping bags and camping stoves by the day or by the week. Collect on Friday, bring everything back on Monday and pay for the weekend only. Students get 10% off.
4 VOLUNTEERS NEEDED. Happy Paws Animal Shelter is looking for animal lovers over 16 to walk and feed our dogs for a few hours a week. The work is unpaid, but you will make lots of four-legged friends! Training for new helpers takes place on the first Monday of every month.
5 SPEAK EASY EVENINGS. Want to practise your Spanish, French or German? Every Thursday at 7 p.m., native speakers and learners meet in the Corner Library café for relaxed conversation. There are no lessons, no tests and no textbooks — just friendly talk over a cup of tea. Free entry. All levels welcome.
Завдання 1. Text 1. This advertisement is for people who would like to ______.
Завдання 2. Text 2. This advertisement is for people who would like to ______.
Завдання 3. Text 3. This advertisement is for people who would like to ______.
Завдання 4. Text 4. This advertisement is for people who would like to ______.
Завдання 5. Text 5. This advertisement is for people who would like to ______.
Read the text below. For questions (6–10) choose the correct answer (A, B, C or D).
A Forecast from the School Roof
When fifteen-year-old Daryna Koval moved from Lviv to a small town in the Carpathians, where her mother had found a job at the hospital, the first thing she noticed was the weather. ‘In the city, I hardly ever looked at the sky,’ she says. ‘Here, everybody talks about it — farmers, bus drivers, my neighbour with her tomatoes. They all want to know whether it will rain tomorrow.’ The problem was that the forecasts on her phone were often wrong. The nearest official weather station was more than sixty kilometres away, on the other side of the mountains.
So Daryna decided to build a station of her own. She had never worked with electronics, so she started by watching online videos and borrowing a book from her physics teacher, Mr Bondar. ‘At first I understood maybe ten per cent of it,’ she laughs. Her first attempt — a cheap sensor connected to an old laptop — stopped working after two days of rain, because she had forgotten to protect the wires from water.
Instead of giving up, she asked for help. Mr Bondar let her use a corner of the physics lab after lessons, and two classmates, Taras and Sofia, joined the project. Taras, who was good at programming, wrote the code that recorded the data every ten minutes. Sofia designed a white wooden box with narrow openings in its sides, so that air could reach the sensors while the sun and rain stayed out. The head teacher allowed them to fix the box to the school roof.
By spring, the station was measuring temperature, air pressure, humidity and wind speed, and the results appeared on a simple website that anyone could open. At first only the students’ parents checked it. Then a local farmer phoned the school to ask whether the numbers were reliable, because he wanted to use them to decide when to plant his potatoes. ‘That was the moment we realised it wasn’t just a school project any more,’ Daryna says. ‘Real people were making real decisions with our data.’
The team’s biggest test came in May, when the station recorded a sudden fall in air pressure. Daryna posted a warning on the town’s social media page: a storm was likely within hours. Some people laughed at the message, but others brought their animals inside and covered their cars. For the next three hours Daryna could hardly sit still. ‘If the storm didn’t come, nobody would ever trust our station again,’ she remembers. That evening, heavy hail fell across the valley, and by the next morning her post had been shared more than two thousand times.
Today the station sends its data to an international network of amateur weather observers, and university researchers have asked to use the records in a study of mountain climate. Daryna, however, is proudest of something else. ‘Younger kids come to the lab now and ask how everything works. Last week a girl from the sixth grade built a rain gauge from a plastic bottle and brought it to show me. That makes me happier than any website.’
Daryna hopes to study physics at university one day, but first she plans a second station across the valley, ‘so that the two of them can talk to each other’.
Завдання 6. What is TRUE of Daryna, according to PARAGRAPH 1?
Завдання 7. What is NOT mentioned in PARAGRAPH 2 about how Daryna started her project?
Завдання 8. What does the phrase ‘That was the moment’ in PARAGRAPH 4 refer to?
Завдання 9. Why did Daryna feel nervous after posting her storm warning, according to PARAGRAPH 5?
Завдання 10. What is Daryna proudest of, according to PARAGRAPH 6?
Read the texts below. Match choices (A–H) to (11–16). There are two choices you do not need to use.
Unusual Libraries
11 The Tool Library. Why buy a drill you will only use twice a year? Members of this library, which is housed in an old fire station, can borrow more than 900 tools, from ladders and lawnmowers to sewing machines and paint sprayers. Membership costs £20 a year, and each item can be kept for up to a week. If you are not sure how to use something, one of the volunteers will give you a quick demonstration before you take it home. Borrowers are simply asked to return everything clean.
12 The Beach Library. Every June a small wooden hut appears on the sand at Gullhaven Bay, and it stays there until the end of September, when the autumn storms arrive. Its shelves are full of paperbacks, magazines and comics. There is no librarian and no library card: you simply take a book to read on your towel and bring it back later, or leave one of your own in its place. Most of the books have been donated by holidaymakers, and the local council repaints the hut every spring.
13 The Floating Library. The Bookworm is a narrowboat that carries around 3,000 books along a quiet canal in the English Midlands. Every week it stops for a day in six villages that lost their own libraries years ago. Children climb aboard for story time on Saturday mornings, and older readers who cannot walk far can ask for books to be brought to their door. The captain, a retired teacher, says the boat’s top speed is four miles an hour, ‘which is perfect, because nobody should read in a hurry’.
14 The Night Library. The main library at Northgate University never closes: it is open 24 hours a day, every day of the year. At three in the morning during exam weeks you can still find more than two hundred students working there, some of them asleep on the sofas. Between midnight and six a.m., staff serve free tea and hot chocolate at the entrance, ‘to keep everybody awake and in a good mood’, as one librarian puts it. Visitors from outside the university are welcome during the day.
15 The Talking Library. In this library, the ‘books’ are people. Each one has a title, such as ‘Night-shift Nurse’, ‘Mountain Rescuer’ or ‘Deaf Musician’. Readers choose a title from the catalogue and spend thirty minutes talking to that person, asking any questions they like. The idea behind it is simple: it is much harder to judge someone once you have heard their story. Events are held in the town hall on the first Saturday of every month. There is no need to book — just come along and pick a ‘book’.
16 The Seed Library. In a corner of Elmwood Public Library stands a wooden cabinet with 120 small drawers. Instead of books, they hold packets of vegetable and flower seeds. Borrowing is free and possible all year round: you take a packet home, grow the plants and, at the end of the season, return some of the seeds collected from your own garden. ‘If everyone brings back a little more than they took, the collection grows every year,’ says the organiser. Every packet comes with a simple growing guide for beginners.
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Read the text below. Choose from (A–H) the one which best fits each space (17–22). There are two choices you do not need to use.
Honey from the Rooftops
Ten years ago, few people in the city centre gave much thought to bees. Today, more than forty hives, (17) ______, sit on the roofs of offices, hotels and even the central railway station. The idea came from a small group of amateur beekeepers (18) ______. Over many years they had noticed that city bees often produced more honey than bees in the countryside, where huge fields are frequently planted with a single crop.
The reason is surprisingly simple. Parks, gardens, balconies and roadside trees offer flowers from early spring until late autumn, so city bees rarely go hungry. They also benefit from the warmth of the streets, which lets them start work earlier in the year. In the countryside, by contrast, bees may have plenty to eat for a few weeks and then very little (19) ______.
Keeping bees on a roof is not as easy as it sounds. Hives have to be protected from strong winds, and beekeepers often have to carry heavy boxes up narrow stairs (20) ______. Some office workers were nervous at first, but complaints have been rare. ‘Most people are surprised to learn (21) ______,’ says Hanna Lind, who looks after six hives above a bank. ‘Bees are busy. They are not interested in us unless we disturb them.’
The honey itself has become a small local celebrity. Every jar carries a label showing the street (22) ______, and tourists buy it as a souvenir. Some cafés now bake with it and claim that it tastes slightly different on every street. Hotel guests can even join a beekeeper on the roof for an hour, dressed in a white suit and a veil, and watch the bees at work.
Завдання 17. Gap 17. Which choice (A–H) best fits space (17)?
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Read the text below. For questions (23–27) choose the correct answer (A, B, C or D).
The Clean Plate Campaign
Last year, our school canteen threw away almost a quarter of the food it cooked, so a group of students decided to (23) ______ action. First, they asked everyone to take smaller portions and come back for more (24) ______ they were still hungry. Then they (25) ______ up with the idea of a ‘leftovers day’ every Friday, when the cooks turn unused vegetables into soups and pies. At first some students complained, but the soups soon became so popular that they (26) ______ out before the end of the lunch break. By the summer, food waste had fallen by half, and the money the school (27) ______ was spent on new books for the library.
Завдання 23. Gap 23. Choose the word that best fits space (23).
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Read the text below. For questions (28–32) choose the correct answer (A, B, C or D).
Up the Wall
When the Summit climbing centre (28) ______ in our town five years ago, only a handful of people came to try it. Today it is (29) ______ busiest sports club in the area, with more than six hundred members. Climbing is (30) ______ than it looks: you need strong fingers, good balance and a clear head. The good news is that beginners (31) ______ buy any equipment, as shoes and ropes can be hired at the desk for a small fee. Children under twelve are welcome too, but they must be accompanied by an adult (32) ______ has completed the centre’s safety course.
Завдання 28. Gap 28. Choose the word or phrase that best fits space (28).
Завдання 29. Gap 29. Choose the word or phrase that best fits space (29).
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